Smarter pricing through contract analytics
Opportunity
- A leading healthcare service and software company needed to analyze its multi-year contracts, which were stored in an unstructured database
- The client wanted to conduct a fast analysis of 20k contracts to identify customers for upcoming price increase campaign
Solution
- Simon-Kucher classified and identified contracts eligible for price increase campaign by extracting data points from 10+ criteria
Impact
- 625 FTE days saved
- +60% Increase of contracts analyzed for price increases
- +36% More contracts identified for price increase
Automating quotes for efficiency & growth
Opportunity
- An industrial manufacturer had 100+ page RFQ documents with product specifications and contract conditions often hidden in text blocks
- The sales team spent excessive time manually capturing data points to calculate and build quotes
Solution
- Simon-Kucher extracted terms from RFQs quickly and accurately
- RFQ details were matched with the product catalogue to identify the best suitable products
- The solution automatically flags where requested conditions are (not) aligned with standard contracting terms
Impact
- +36% Increase of efficiency per FTE
- +6% Increase of win rate by increasing response rates
- +24% Increase of the volume of completed RFQ quotes
Driving transparency and profitability
Opportunity
- Restructure rebate agreements to optimize margins at the account level
- Create a complete and transparent overview of rebate structures and conditions per account
Solution
- Simon-Kutcher automated the extracting of all bonus agreements from unstructured pdf files to a structured database
- Bonus agreements for each customer were seamlessly matched with transaction details to provide full transparency, enable automated rebate calculations, and uncover hidden margin opportunities
Impact
- 0.5 – 1%pt margin improvement, equivalent to an annual margin increase of €3.2M – €6.5M on a revenue base of €650M
- More effective negotiation process for account managers through a clear rebate overview
- 40+ FTE hours saved through automated extraction of bonus agreements